The mountain is totally
covered and the weather is very bad, the forecast is the same for the next two
days, I am upset because I haven't been able to send or receive messages and
everything I try doesn't work and I am upset with all this. The wait
disconcerts me a little but I think that everything is like this, the day I
climbed for my acclimatization was not the day for the summit and that is
clear to me, but the change of weather left me a bitter taste, waiting is the
only thing to do, it looks like I am not used to it but being ready and not
being able to climb leaves a feeling that rots you with the desire of
achieving your objective.

Everybody at base camp is in
the same situation but I only think about me and my project, I have to make
things work and that is also a pressure. I think about my family and I want
the best for them, I want to fight for them. God has given me a path on the
mountains and I am grateful, but it is hard for the people who support me to
know about this, I hope all this works and that things end well, I have fought
for glory and I have tasted it, but a lot of times the little obstacles stop
everything and that makes me unstable.

I have to continue, the fight
should be endless and I make my best effort, I would like to have the same
support as the people who are here, but I am happy with what I have because
beyond the economic matters there are people who love me and who motivate me
to continue. My fight will be intense and my children and family have
witnessed this, and the echo of my effort will get to the people who value
effort and the discipline I apply on my things, who know that I have fought
for my ideals, for my dreams, for my life.

It is easy to make an opinion
from a bubble but when the reality is not only ours, that is when one offers
the best of oneself for life. The summits that have been under my feet have
threatened my existence on this planet and have asked me a lot of difficult
things to explain but that have given growth to my life. How much solitude
has been with me while climbing up and down a mountain where only me and its
intensity are the protagonists of the achievements and perfection in our ways
and movements. Silence goes with us, maybe the best ally, the expectations
can make our dreams sink but the surprise makes glory great.

We will continue fighting
because this is just the beginning of a road I started to cover, a road that
some have not finished but where they have always given their best, what we do
in the mountains is not just to be greater than others but to grow and to
give the best to others. I have had lessons of fight from all these people
who have never been recognized for their effort, today from this base camp I
want to offer my fight and my respect to the first team of Colombians who
stepped on Nanga Parbat, to their tenacity on their two attempts to its
summit, to recognize the historic rescue of a teammate on this mountain, I
only feel respect for them from here and my dream has been their dream, let's
hope luck is always with me and I can share this fight with those who are not
here anymore. I talk about Belisario Pinzón with whom I dreamt of ascending
this mountain with and Anibal Folker, Truman and Elkin, unbeatable warriors
that are giving their best as climbers and people to make the Colombian
process on the Himalayas greater.

I continue to be positive
while waiting for a change in the weather because, although this year has not
been good to climbers, we wait for the moment because hope, the weapon of
every fighter, is with us. I will look for the moment, I will be ready and I
count on luck to be with me, if everything is in harmony the cosmos will
confabulate for this fight, which is from one Colombian to those Colombians
who have forgotten to dream.

Translated from Spanish by
Jorge Rivera

Background: Fernando
Gonzalez is going after his 4th eight-thousand

Colombian
climber Fernando González Rubio Polanco started last Monday, June 13, his
adventure in Pakistan, where he will climb Nanga Parbat, 8,125 m, the
ninth highest mountain of the world.

This time
Fernando will be a team for Colombia, his next expedition which will start on
June 13, Nanga Parbat, called the Naked Mountain, has big altitude differences
an all its faces, especially by the Rupal Face, 4,500 m, the highest wall on
Earth. Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain of the world with 8,125 m,
and is located in Pakistan.

His
schedule starts on Monday, June 13, leaving from Bogota to Paris, London,
Islamabad and Gilgit, where he will start a trek to the base camp of the
mountain.

Fernando
wants to climb the 14 highest mountains of the world, of over eight thousand
meters of altitude, located all of them in the mountain system of the
Himalayas.

Fercho
wants to send a message to Colombians with this project, to make a national
effort, beyond the expected to recover the union among us. His is a message
of peace.